Rugby Union in Zambia - Zambian Rugby Union Players, George Gregan, Zambia National Rugby Union Team, Corn Krige (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Zambian Rugby Union Players, George Gregan, Zambia National Rugby Union Team, Corn Krige, Zambia Women's National Rugby Union Team. Excerpt: George Waitoa Gregan AM (born 19 April 1973 in Evanders bus, Zimbabwe) is an Australian rugby union halfback who has made more appearances for his national team than any other player in the sport's history. He has captained the team to many victories and he is respected throughout the rugby world for his tenacity, tactical skill, leadership ability, and sportsmanship. Gregan played Super 12 (now Super 14) for the Brumbies from the inception of that competition in 1996 through 2007, helping to lead moen them to overall victories in 2001 and 2004. He is a foundation Brumbies player and one of the few players whose career spans both the amateur and professional eras. His appearances as Australian captain include a Bledisloe Cup win in 2002 and an extra-time loss to England in the 2003 Rugby World Cup final. As a member of the Wallabies team, Gregan has attained the zenith of the rugby world, winning the Rugby World Cup in 1999. Gregan and his longtime Wallabies teammate, fly-half Stephen Larkham, also hold the all-time record for Test appearances by a halfback partnership with 79. On 18 June 2008 it was announced that he had joined Suntory Sungoliath in Japan. (Daily Yomiuri, 19 June 2008) following a season at RC Toulonnais in the French Top 14. Gregan was born in Zambia, of a Zimbabwean mother and an Australian father, coincidentally in the same hospital where Corn Krige, who would grow up to be the South Africa captain during Gregan's Wallabies captaincy, would be born two years later. His family moved to Australia when he was one year old, and he grew up in Canberra where he was educated at St Edmund... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=772287